Tuesday... It is needed when we travel.

Psalm 40:1 (AMP), "I waited patiently and expectantly for the Lord; and he inclined to me and heard my cry."

Tuesday... It is needed when we travel.

We live in Las Vegas, Nevada and over the weekend we drove to Long Beach and Riverside in California and again found that when we travel no matter how, we need patience.

If we fly we need to wait in the airport for the plane to arrive and if we drive then it is just a continuing endeavor of patience in a car. Yes, there is a need for patience no matter how we travel. And of course there is also a need for expectancy. And we need patience and expectancy in life. But it can be so difficult.

Now life is a journey and there is so much impatience in it. Waiting in so many different ways is a part of life. And there is some impatience even when we are waiting on God, but there is also reward.

David writes here in Psalm 40:1 (AMP), "I waited patiently and expectantly for the Lord; and he inclined to me and heard my cry." Yes, maybe you are in a time of waiting on God and patience is what you need and also expectancy.

Of course life is a journey and there is so much we want to happen right now. And here is another verse that we need to read and believe. Verse 4 says, "Blessed [fortunate, prosperous, and favored by God] is the man who makes the Lord his trust, and does not regard the proud nor those who lapse into lies." God can be trusted and he hears our cry. His word is the truth. It is not written by liers. You can trust him.

Verses 1-3 in the New Living Translation says, "I waited patiently for the Lord to help me, and he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and mire. He has given me a new song to sing, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see what he has done and be amazed. They will put their trust in the Lord."

Yes, our impatience can cause despair and we need God to lift us out of the mud and mire of despair. The Message Paraphrase says, "He lifted me out of the ditch, pulled me out of deep mud. He stood me on a solid rock to make sure I wouldn't slip. He taught me how to sing the latest God-song, a praise-song to our God." And then it says, "More and more people are seeing this: they enter the mystery, abandoning themselves to God."

And yes, we need to abandon ourselves to God and believe that our patience and expectancy will be rewarded. Yes, we made it home. We had such a great time this weekend but it is so good to be home. And God was with us leading the way. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning.

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